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2020, was a challenging year. Hope 2021 is much better, and we build back better. Here is 2021 projected Real GDP Growth (%) for our region, just released by AEO/AFDB.
https://www.afdb.org/en/knowledge/publi ... ic-outlook

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Is it by accident or by design, that most of the African-American officials seem to constantly stand against Africa's interests? It makes me wonder, WHY? Are they being pushed, to do the dirty work? Who or what drives them to implement wrong policies that never work in Africa; in particular in the HOA?

We are not simply accusing them, just for the sake of it. Eritrea sanctioned for nine years, without a single evidence. Why? What is their own personal agenda, to be harsh on us? Does this mean, African lives do not matter? Please leave us alone, to do our own business.
(#InvestInEritrea: @DahlaKib)



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TPLF & its handlers used exaggerated media conjectures, Genocide Ethnic Cleansing & Famine headlines etc. The agenda is to cause undue panic, confuse, misinform & mal-inform-force a UN/international reaction- Eritrea, Ethiopia & the Horn responded with...

Fool me once, shame on U....

H.E. Ronaldo Costa Filho, PR of Brazil to the UN paid visit to Eritrean Mission @UN. We discussed on Africa, Horn of Africa & Security Council, challenges to peace & development, financing Global Goals (SDGs) & agreed to work to strengthen Brazil- Eritrea relations & cooperation.

(Amb. Sophia Tesfamariam: @stesfamariam)

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https://jeffpearce.medium.com/ethiopia- ... 2f471c45ae
I am now at the "begging" stage, to get reporters to cover the conflict in Ethiopia properly. They are, unfortunately, still in the stage of "denial." I've been told: nope, "remote" investigations are valid. Okay! Then, what I found is equally valid.

When I poke holes in Amnesty, I'm told the EHCR did its own report and found the same as Amnesty and HRW. Flawed is still flawed, no matter the source. And it sure gets damn quiet, when I point this out. Footage taken, on November 30 in Axum.

What does it take? So these people didn't celebrate that day? You won't even follow up? You don't find it strange at all, that the TPLF bragged to Reuters about taking Axum on Nov 28 but now we're told a massacre took place then?

WHAT DOES IT TAKE, TO GET A SECOND LOOK?

Are we ever going to talk about how the "eyewitnesses" crossed 350 kilometres from Axum to Hamdayet, but they somehow magically got in after the Ethiopian authorities closed the border?

What. Does. It. Take. To get a second look?
(Jeff Pearce: @jeffpropulsion)

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The voice of Eritrea, echoing.... #EritreaPrevails, against all odds!
(ኤርትራ ERITREA: @thedrosg1)

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Department of surgery upgrading capacity

https://shabait.com/2021/03/12/departme ... -capacity/

GENERAL



Asmara, 12 March 2021 – The Department of Surgery at the Orotta National Referral Hospital is upgrading the scope and quality of its services, through investment in equipment and human capital.



In an interview he conducted with Erina, Dr. Yosief Tewelde, head of the Department of Surgery stated that the current service categories include: neurosurgery, renal/urinary surgeries, cancer as well as delicate surgeries on infants. He also said that the department regularly conducts 1,500-2000 surgeries, annually.

Dr. Yosief went on to say, that the Ministry of Health is giving due attention to human resources development and that post-graduate education on gynecology and pediatrics will start in the near future.

He further indicated that the Department of Surgery at the Orotta National Referral Hospital has been providing emergency services respecting the guidelines issued to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, however, currently, it has resumed providing regular services and called on patients to respect the guidelines and social distancing.

[Zmeselo]

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HornAfrica TV Amharic Edition: Discussion on current developments! Btsai Mohammed alBadawi engages Prof Mohamed Hassen!

[Zmeselo]

Last weekend, Eritrean cyclists registered commendable results in races held in Turkey & France; Metkel Eyob in GP Velo Manavgat & GP Velo Alanya, Turkey & Biniam Ghirmay & Yacob Debessay in @AlpesMaritimes, France. Currently, around 10 Eritrean cyclists are participating in different races.
(Amanuel Mesfun: @amanuelabaga)

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Juventus news: four young players Paratici wants to sign



Football Italia

https://app.football-italia.net/?referr ... lia-167593

16 Hours Ago

According to Tuttosport, Juventus have set their sights on four young players, while Everton remain interested in Adrien Rabiot.

The Old Lady will begin a rejuvenation process https://www.football-italia.net/167546/ ... -will-stay that will see many players leave at the end of the season.

Rabiot is one of the players who could leave in the summer with Carlo Ancelotti's Everton interested in securing his services.

According to Tuttosport, Juventus have set their sights on four players with a potentially bright future ahead.

Los Angeles Galaxy’s Julian Araujo, a 19-year-old right-back, is being scouted by the Bianconeri over the last few months, but he is not the only defender on Juventus’ agenda.

Valencia’s Jesus Vazquez, 18, plays as a left-back and although he’s only played one game with Valencia senior team, Juventus’ CFO Fabio Paratici is keeping a close eye on him.

The same is true of two other La Liga players: https://www.football-espana.net/ Alexander Isak (Real Sociedad) and Youssef En-Nesyri, from Sevilla.

The duo have scored 31 goals combined so far this season and Juventus had already been linked with signing Isak back in 2016.

The 21-year-old has also attracted the interest of Barcelona.

[Zmeselo]

The final word, is finally said! Literally, from the horse's mouth. No death/massacre or looting, in Axum church. Period!

[Zmeselo]

Belarus, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria & Venezuela create “The Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations” to promote legality over force: defend international law & oppose unilateral, murderous US sanctions & military aggressions.
(Maria: @ml_1maria)




Press Statement on allegations of “ethnic cleansing”: 13 March 2021 @mfaethiopia

[Fed_Up]

2020, was a challenging year. Hope 2021 is much better, and we build back better. Here is 2021 projected Real GDP Growth (%) for our region, just released by AEO/AFDB.
https://www.afdb.org/en/knowledge/publi ... ic-outlook

Wow!! What struck me most is after all the misery havocs and instabilities the Tplfists terrorists created in Ethiopia and Eritrea, the two countries managed to grow in econometrics is unbelievable. Thank you for sharing and your time brother Zemeselo.

Bravo!

[Zmeselo]

Africa
US Will Not Resume Aid to Ethiopia for Most Security Programs

By Reuters

https://www.voanews.com/ethiopia-tigray ... y-programs

March 12, 2021


A supporter of Tigray Regional Government shout slogans against Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during a protest outside EU headquarters in Brussels, March 12, 2021

WASHINGTON - The State Department on Friday said Washington has decided not to lift the pause in assistance to Ethiopia for most programs in the security sector, days after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described acts in Tigray as ethnic cleansing.

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that while the United States has decided to resume certain types of assistance, including that related to global health and food security, assistance for other programs and most programs in the security sector would remain paused.

Given the current environment in Ethiopia, we have decided not to lift the assistance pause for other programs, including most programs in the security sector,

Price said at a news briefing.

Blinken has pressed Ethiopia to end hostilities in Tigray and on Wednesday, testifying before Congress, he said he wanted to see forces in Tigray from Eritrea and Amhara be replaced by security forces

that will not abuse the human rights of the people of Tigray or commit acts of ethnic cleansing, which we've seen in western Tigray.

Thousands of people have died, hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes, and there are shortages of food, water and medicine in the region of more than 5 million people.

Blinken, in a call with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday, discussed the importance of an international investigation into reported human rights abuses in the region, the State Department said Friday.

It said that in the call, Blinken also called for

enhanced regional and international efforts to help resolve the humanitarian crisis, end atrocities, and restore peace in Ethiopia.

The U.N. said last week that Eritrean troops were operating throughout Ethiopia's northern Tigray region and reports suggested they were responsible for atrocities.

The State Department last month said Washington will unlink its pause on some aid to Ethiopia from its policy on the giant Blue Nile hydropower dam that sparked a long-running dispute between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

But it cautioned that resumption of assistance would be assessed on several factors, including

whether each paused program remains appropriate and timely in light of developments in Ethiopia that occurred subsequent to the pause being put in place,

according to a State Department representative.

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POLITICS/News Wire
Ethiopia Calls U.S. Claims of Tigray Ethnic Cleansing ‘Spurious’

Helen Nyambura, Bloomberg News

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ethiopia-ca ... 8.amp.html

6h ago

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s allegations of ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are

unfounded and spurious,

the African nation’s foreign ministry said while welcoming calls for a probe into any human rights violations in the northern province.

The U.S. is pressing Ethiopia’s government to end a war that’s been raging in the region for four months, drawing in troops from neighboring Eritrea, leaving thousands of people dead and forcing millions of others to flee. Last month, an Amnesty International report accused Eritrean soldiers of war crimes in Tigray for an alleged massacre of hundreds of unarmed civilians in the town of Axum in November.

Both Ethiopia and Eritrea criticized the report. Their governments have previously denied Eritrean troops are involved in the fighting.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered an incursion into the north on Nov. 3 after regional forces attacked a state military camp there, the culmination of months of tension between the federal government and provincial authorities. While Abiy declared victory on Nov. 28, fighting has persisted and the United Nations warns there is a growing risk of starvation.

The accusations during Blinken’s testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 10 were a

completely unfounded and spurious verdict against the Ethiopian government,

the ministry said on Twitter.

Nothing during or after the end of the main law-enforcement operation in Tigray can be identified or defined by any standards as a targeted, intentional ethnic cleansing against anyone in the region. That is why the Ethiopian government vehemently opposes such accusations,

it said.

The government is conducting its own investigations into the alleged human rights violations and is ready to cooperate with the African Union and others on further probes, the ministry said.

Overblowing things out of proportion while the Ethiopian government has made its position unequivocally clear on the need for thorough investigation in collaboration with regional and international partners does not serve the purpose of justice other than unnecessarily politicizing the issue,

according to the statement.

[Zmeselo]

2020, was a challenging year. Hope 2021 is much better, and we build back better. Here is 2021 projected Real GDP Growth (%) for our region, just released by AEO/AFDB.
https://www.afdb.org/en/knowledge/publi ... ic-outlook

Wow!! What struck me most is after all the misery havocs and instabilities the Tplfists terrorists created in Ethiopia and Eritrea, the two countries managed to grow in econometrics is unbelievable. Thank you for sharing and your time brother Zemeselo.

Bravo!

You're welcome, brother! My. Pleasure! This 1, for all losers & weyane bootlickêrs!

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WORLD
Ethiopia Blasts U.S. for 'Overblowing' Tigray Conflict With Ethnic Cleansing Assessment

BY BRENDAN COLE

https://www.newsweek.com/ethiopia-blast ... nt-1575913

3/13/21

(03:07 embedded video)


Women mourn the victims of a massacre in Tigray, Ethiopia, on February 26, 2021. The government rejects U.S. claims that ethnic cleansing is taking place in the region. EDUARDO SOTERAS/GETTY IMAGES

The assessment by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that ethnic cleansing is taking place in the north of Ethiopia has sparked a stern response from the government in Addis Ababa.

Blinken has called for an international probe into the fighting in the Tigray region between its former ruling group the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF).

Ethiopia's government and regional officials in Tigray are disputing the legitimacy of each other's governments after the pandemic disrupted elections. Violence erupted in November 2020 when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent in government troops after state military facilities were attacked.

In the subsequent unrest, many have been displaced and federal forces and their allies, including fighters from neighboring Eritrea, are accused of carrying out human rights abuses.

On Wednesday, Blinken told the House foreign affairs committee that the U.S. was concerned about

credible reports of human rights abuses and atrocities

in Tigray.

He said Eritrean forces and those from the Amhara region must be replaced in Tigray by security forces that will respect human rights and not

commit acts of ethnic cleansing.

But Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs disputed this description in a statement on Saturday.

Nothing during or after the end of the main law enforcement operation in Tigray can be identified or defined by any standards as a targeted, intentional ethnic cleansing against anyone in the region,

it said.

That is why the Ethiopian government vehemently opposes such accusations.

It added that allegations of ethnic cleansing amount to

a completely unfounded and spurious verdict against the Ethiopian government,

and accused Washington of

overblowing things,

The Associated Press reported.

When contacted by Newsweek for comment, a State Department spokesperson said that Blinken had made it clear that "acts of ethnic cleansing" had taken place in western Tigray and that "this is unacceptable."

We continue to be gravely concerned by reported atrocities and the overall deteriorating situation,

the statement said.

We strongly condemn the killings, forced removals, sexual assaults, and other human rights abuses by several parties that multiple organizations have reported in Tigray.

The AP and Amnesty International have detailed atrocities in the conflict, including how Eritrean soldiers killed "many hundreds" of people in a massacre in the city of Axum in November.

With the overall death toll said to be in the thousands, the unrest comes amid fears of starvation in Tigray just ahead of harvest time with witness accounts of looting by Eritrean soldiers and the burning of crops.

On Friday, the U.S. State Department said Washington would resume assistance to Ethiopia that was related to health and food security but it would not lift a pause in assistance to most programs in the security sector.

The previous day, Blinken told United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres there must be an investigation into reported human rights abuses in the region.

He also called for

enhanced regional and international efforts to help resolve the humanitarian crisis, end atrocities, and restore peace in Ethiopia,

Reuters reported.

This story has been updated to include a statement to Newsweek by the U.S. State Department.